News and Market Developments
Indiana Capital Chronicle: Community Paramedics Don't Wait for an Emergency to Visit Rural Patients at Home (5/1) - Community paramedicine allows paramedics to use their skills outside of emergency settings. The goal is to help patients access care, maintain or improve their health, and reduce their dependence on costly ambulance rides and ER visits. Advocates say providing in-home care, resources, and education can help patients reduce such crises and associated costs. Fewer emergencies mean fewer ambulance runs and hospital patients, which could help ambulance services and hospitals reduce costs and the time patients wait for help.
MedScape: There's No Place Like Home For Hospital Care (5/1) - In this Medicine and the Machine podcast, Dr. Eric Topol and Dr. Abraham Verghese interviewed Dr. Helen Ouyang, an associate professor at Columbia University. Dr. Ouyang recently authored the New York Times Magazine cover article, Your Next Hospital Bed Might Be at Home. "People wanted their care at home...Technology has moved in that direction — now you can do remote monitoring with patients at home that you weren't able to do a few decades ago. All of those forces will push hospital-at-home." said Dr. Ouyang.
The Hill: The Care Tax: The Cost of the Lack of Care for Caregivers (4/30) - One cost we don’t see on our tax forms each year that we should: the cost of unpaid family caregiving. Right now, Congress has the ability to pass historic caregiving-focused legislation, such as President Biden’s budget, the Better Care Better Jobs Act, and the Home and Community Based Services Access Act, all of which would help millions of us continue to do what matters most: care for the people we love.
NPR: Post-Pandemic, Even Hospital Care Goes Remote (4/29) - Since the pandemic, some hospitals have started offering to let patients with acute illness recuperate at-home, with 24-hour remote access to medical professionals and daily home visits. "People do better; they're more mobile, they recover faster," says Michael Maniaci, an internist who directs virtual care for the Mayo Clinic. "They use physical therapy or skilled nursing care less. You ask: Why is that? Because there's something magical about being at home." For additional coverage, see Becker's Hospital Review.
McKnights Home Care: Innovive Health Brings Home-Based Behavioral Care to Colorado (4/26) - Innovive Health announced it has opened an office in Colorado Springs and has already begun caring for complex patients in their homes. Colorado has a Medicaid system that supports its services. Innovive partners with medical groups, hospitals, home health firms and other agencies to provide in-home behavioral care to complex patients. It currently makes visits to approximately 20,000 patients a week in Massachusetts.
Fortune Well: The 'Hospital at Home' Movement is Coming (4/26) - Jean Olive’s father, a congestive heart failure patient, was hospitalized three times during the pandemic. Olive believes “hospital at home” care—in which doctors, nurses, and other specialists do “rounds” to the houses of patients, who are monitored remotely via video and diagnostic equipment—could have improved her dad’s experience, as well as his morale. "People want to stay in their home. There's so much opportunity. We just have to change the culture, get the adoption, and really try to change some of the payer models.” Jean Olive said.
AHIP: Helping the Homebound Through House Calls (4/25) - AHIP President and CEO Matt Eyles and co-host Laura Evans were joined by Dr. Paul Chiang and Julie Sacks from the Home Centered Care Institute for a discussion covering everything from the variety of services provided by home care to technology and how new approaches are helping home-based primary care patients feel less isolated and better cared-for.
Home Health Care News: Breaking Down The Disconnect Between Home-Based Primary Care Providers, Home Health Agencies (4/24) - Welcome Health delivers primary care, preventive care, chronic illness management and more in the home. The company infuses the principles of geriatric medicine into its model of primary care, and several of Welcome Health’s physicians are geriatricians. Differing payment structures has been a roadblock, as Welcome Health is paid through value-based arrangements and most home health care is covered under Medicare fee for service.
AARP: Is Hospital at Home the Future of Health Care? (4/21) - Advocates warn that hospitals aren’t always the safest places for some patients — particularly older adults who may become confused by unfamiliar surroundings. Hospital at Home (HaH) is a specific designation for acute patients who need hospital-level care but who are considered stable enough to receive it at home. A medical team (including doctors and nurses or EMTs) makes home and virtual visits. A patient shares their experience with HaH.
Business Wire: Cadence and Providence Launch Remote Patient Monitoring Program Advancing Quality and Access to Care for Patients at Home (4/19) - Cadence announced a partnership with Providence to implement a remote patient monitoring and responsive virtual care program across Providence’s clinics. Cadence’s platform couples technology with an expert, Nurse Practitioner-led clinical care team that collects, analyzes, and responds to patients’ vitals daily, outside of the clinic setting. The program aims to support patients on their journey to better health through lifestyle modifications and guideline-based medication management.
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